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The Legal & Political Importance of State Attorneys General - UCLA Law School - Fall 2022

Articles describing the evolving positions of then-AL Attorney General William Pryor and then-AL Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore (2003 - 2004).

Upon the election of Alabama Attorney General Jeff Sessions to the United States Senate in 1996, William Pryor, now a federal appellate judge, was appointed to be the Attorney General of Alabama. He had previously been serving under Sessions as Solicitor General.  Pryor was immediately caught up in a number of controversies that posed fundamental ethical challenges. These articles describe those challenges.